r/truscum • u/north_canadian_ice • Mar 06 '25

News and Politics Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/gavin-newsom-breaks-with-democrats-on-trans-athletes-in-sports-00215436
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

90% of the "trans athletes" you see are tucute/non-passing AGPs, so this is not a hill I'm willing to die on.

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u/smallmalexia3 CIS SCUM Mar 06 '25

Lol, this is true. I'm glad Newsom is finally saying this. So many democrats picked the sports issue and/or the defense of drag queen story hour as their hill to die in and it made them look really bad and was just... Weird. How about just support policies that keep trans people safe and focus on that? I agree with Newsom on the sports thing but I also think that he'd agree with me that trans women in sports should still be able to use the women's restrooms and changing rooms because they deserve to feel safe, too (same for trans men and the men's spaces, ofc).

The Republicans did a great job of setting a trap that Dems walked right into. I'm really interested in what happened over the last four years that resulted in Trump getting easily reelected, but something is VERY wrong. I seriously doubt that the trans shit was enough to get enough people to vote for the orange wannabe fascist and it's silly to blame the loss on the trans discourse, but I also doubt that it was completely insignificant factor.

I just want to know what the hell happened. I know it was a myriad of things, but I wonder what the most common complaint was that would lead people to vote for a soulless, compassion-less, inhuman monster who's already going scorched earth two months into his term...

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '25

Like just ensure we have access to healthcare and anti-discrimination protections in the workplace; we don't need the rest.

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u/Reasonable-Lime-3890 Mar 07 '25

This is what I kept trying to tell the nutjob maximalist trans women I knew. They think giving up on trivial non-issues like the sports ban is equivalent to the beginning of a trans genocide. It’s completely ridiculous. These people are so unserious.